Neil Gaiman Quotes

Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.

For a moment she felt utterly dislocated. She did not know where she was; she was not entirely sure who she was. It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the bed we wake up in in...

For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible. She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of limeade, and a cup of weak tea. The limeade was very interesting. It didn't taste anything like lim...

HMS Belfast is a gunship of 11,000 tons, commissioned in 1939, which saw active service in the Second World War. Since then it has been moored on the south bank of the Thames, in postcard-land, betwee...

He entertained these thoughts awkwardly, as a man entertains unexpected guests. Then, as he reached his objective, he pushed these thoughts away, as a man apologizes to his guests, and leaves them, mu...

He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.

He said nothing: seldom do those who are silent make mistakes. I

He told me not to seek revenge, but to seek the Buddha,' said the fox spirit, sadly. 'Wise counsel,' said the fox of dreams. 'Vegeance can be a road that has no ending. You would be wise to avoid it....

Here: an exercise in choice. Your choice. One of these tales is true.She lived through the war. In 1959 she came to America. She now lives in a condo in Miami, a tiny French woman with white hair, wit...

Hold fast, he called. Tell me your names, and your stations.I am the Lady Door, said Door. I am Portico's daughter, of the House of the Arch.I am Hunter. I am her bodyguard.Richard Mayhew, said Richar...

How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow.

However you must have sensed a lurking 'but' skulking beneath my happy, blithe, and chipper exterior. A minuscule vexation, like the teeniest lump of raw liver sticking to the inside of my boot.

I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.

I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too.

I believe that ideas do not have to be correct to exist. I

I believe that you have the absolute right to think things that I find offensive, stupid, preposterous or dangerous, and that you have the right to speak, write, or distribute these things, and that I...

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the Beatles and...

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

I decided that I would do my best in the future not to write books just for money. If you didn't get the money then you didn't have anything. If I did the work I was proud of and I didn't get the mone...

I do not know what you were like as a wood-nymph, madam, but you are a magnificent tree.